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“Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,Though I am damned for it we two will lieAnd burn, here where the starlings fly”
“When youre looking for a needle in a haystack, dont afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.”
“Be kind! Go and burn the world with the fire of your love.”
“It's a poem about moths. But it's also a poem about psychopaths.I get it copied. And stick it in a frame. And now it glowers redoubtably above my desk:an entomological keepsake of the horizons of e...”
“I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while," she said, "but if you start feeling the need...”
“You should've thought of that before becoming a fir”
“I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had meant the night before, about the insanity that had gripped him. He was not so far gone as to be lost...”
“Now, Simone, I'm a witch, remember? There's not much I don't know just by looking at you. And you know what I see when I look at you?'Simone walked out the door before she could finish, only hearin...”
“The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. Its so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.”
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
“[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.”
“In the name of forever, let's burn down our today and tomorrows.”
“And if there is one last thing I would have you know before we reach these final pages, it's that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we want it to be so, sometimes there is no...”
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billi...”
“We're too different now. We want different things. And this?" I say nodding at our hands. "All this managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off”
“Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and s...”
“- Where is Polonius?- In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself.”
“If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means “Our Own Self” did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn in the funeral pyre; whether it improves or not.”
“Anna’s conclusions were these: That fire is beautifully cruel. That fusion occurs only at a specific heat. That blood, in fact, can boil. That the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, ...”
“Thank you,” I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both.”“You want to thank me, Barrow?” she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. “Then keep your word. And ...”
